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Old 05-30-2002, 01:35 PM   #1
Charean
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Join Date: March 6, 2001
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THE WORDLESS service marking the end of the 8-month cleanup was to begin at 10:29 a.m. - the time the second tower collapsed - in the seven-story pit that once was the basement of the twin skyscrapers before they were felled on Sept. 11.

After a ceremonial ringing of the fire department bell, to commemorate the 343 fallen firefighters, the processional was to move up a 500-foot ramp out of the pit.

Of the more than 2,800 people killed in the attack, 1,102 have been identified. Nearly 20,000 body parts have been recovered.

New York City officials said the sifting for body parts in a city landfill will continue and the identification process will go on for months. Those human remains that cannot be identified will be retained, in case new technology someday makes it possible.

The unprecedented cleanup effort finished several months earlier than originally anticipated and at a fraction of the estimated cost. But while many victims have been identified, the end of the operation leaves numerous others without their family members‚ remains.

“To not have anything recovered, it‚s just such an empty feeling,” said Jennifer Tarantino, 32, of Bayonne, N.J., whose husband died in the attacks. “It‚s so final. Your husband goes to work one day and that’s it, you never see him again.”

On Thursday, a truck was to follow the stretcher, carrying the trade center’s last steel beam, which stood until Tuesday night, when it was cut down during a ceremony for ground zero workers.
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